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FKOTECTIOX VERSUS WHAT?
"No new arguments are available now
on the issue before the people in the Presl-
dental election. All else having failed it,
the Democratic party is at last reduced by
a process of exhaustion to the sheer neces
sity of basins; its appeal to the nation on
nothing more logical than the personality
of ex-President Cleveland. The free trade
Eliminations launched forth at Chicago
have died away in the solitude of neglect
and fear into indefinite murmurs and un
definable echoes of an abstract something
named "tariff reform."
Irrefutable evidence has been produced
that in place of the calamity foretold by
Democrats for the latest legislate e em
bodiment of Protective principles, pros
perity has already resulted therefrom, and
by analagous reasoning there can be no
legitimate doubt that under a continuance
of that policy the prosperity will increase.
Factories have multiplied, productions
have been diversified, wages in general
have been raised and the cost of living lias
not been increased, the home market has
been secured from foreign competition
and the foreign market has been en
larged. 2o silver-tongued orators, no pyrotech
mcal publicists and no book-learned col
lege professors have been ab'e to damage
this array of facts or establish conflicting
evidence. The Democratic nominee, in
comrcorrwith several of his most brilliant
pporters, has forsaken the national con
vention of his party which called in un
mistakable language for free trade. He
lias substituted for that demand a plea
lor tariff reform which in the utter ab
sence of any intelligently expressed or in
telligibly defined schedule can at Its
best mean no more than tariff-tinkering,
with a consequent unsettlement of the
business of the country.
It is upon this summing up that the
business intelligence and common sense of
the country must return their verdict The
Dispatch has every confidence that the
voters of these United States will indorse
and demand the continuance of a policy
whose benefits have been experienced,
and doom to defeat an estimable gentle
man with a programme, the very indefin
iteness of which while it is its least dan
gerwould be enough in itself to involve
the country in an uncertainty that is the
precursor of commercial instability and
fill the evils which that entails.
BRAG AND BLUSTER.
The last few days of a close political
canvass usually bring out some bluff and
bluster. It is not surprising that Gover
nor Campbell, Colonel JlcClure, Chair
man Harnty, and other Democratic lights,
are making noisy claims in the hope of
influencing the wavering vote. Bat the
peoph are used to that sort of campaign
ing. There will be few among tliem so
weak and credulous as to bs influenced
against their convictions by clap-trap
prophecies of interested partisans.
It -is a good sign for the Republicans
that so far they have been prophesying
less in the market-places than their
opponents. Usually Republicans work
hardest when not too confident. If the
workingmen, merchants and manufact
urers, whose wages, business and profits
depend largely upon the tariff, goto the
polls and vote according to their interests,
the friends of protection need have no
fear of the result It is this silent vote
that will count not the ante-election hur
rah. The effect of pre-election boasting by
tbe Democrats will undoubtedly be to stir
the Republicans In every doubtful State
to the greatest possible effort It will
bring out the full Republican vote.
THE PURPOSE OF PROFIT-SHARING.
The'article in The Dispatch this morn
ing from a member of a publishing firm,
who has made a year's experiment in
profit-sharing with his employes, sets forth
the great object to be attained by that
plan. It is to make the interest of the
employes of an establishment in its pros
perity more direct and evident than it is
under the wages system.
Of course, in a certain sense the interest
of employes under the wages system is
bound up with than of employers. They
are concerned Jnst like the -seller of ma
terial or the business man whose trade lies
with the industries in question, and no
more. Such a relation does not comprise
the identity of interest which Is needed to
make employes go hand in hand for the
common purpose of Increasing the pros
perity of the concern.
When employes know that every effort
of theirs to improve the quality of the
work or to increase the results to be ob
tained from their labor will return as
fixed and specified increase of their wages,
the incentive 'to faithful and intelligent
work will be immensely increased. The
great drawback of the present system is
that this incentive is always indirecrf gen
erally remote and somett. t . s ,i Ic
ing. The article pobli j t ' n
tains evidence that empl' - h d-
mitted to the profit-sharing plan, appre
ciate th change and fully recognize tbe
inference that it binds them to the most
earnest and loyal efforts to Increase the
common prosperity.
Of course there are many questions of de
tail, such as tbe basis on which the distri
bution shall bo made, whether employes
should share losses as well as gains, and
so on, which must be settled by experi
ence. But let the main purpose.of profit
sharing be adopted, and the details will
certainly be worked in due time.
DESTRUCTION BT. FIRE.
The high winds and colder temperatures
following the dry period, have started the
season or fires. Yesterday's dispatches
report the wiping out of the little town of
Callery Junction, and the burning of the
Euciid Avenue Opera House, as pendants
to the central conflagration at Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee fire does not attain the
univeisal destructiveness of the Chicago
fire of twenty years ago, nor even the great
proportions of the Boston fire. But a
conflagration which costs four lives, wipes
out the structures from thirteen squares,
destroys tliree hundred buildings, makes)
3,000 people homeless, and Inflicts a total
loss of 56,000,000 to 58,000,000 is a grievous
calamity to the city where it occurs and a
heavy blow to tbe insurance companies.
Tho conditions which favor such fires
are clear enough. A. long dry period has
made woodwork like tinder. The cold
wae causes the lighting of fires' in
disused places, and perhaps without
seeing that they are safe. Tbe scarcity
of water also in the case of
rural fires adds to the difficulty
of arresting the'flameq. In Milwaukee the
start of tbe fire was due to an oil explosion
and the lake near by gave no such excuse
as scarcity of water, but higl winds and
frame structures were undoubtedly the fac
tors which permitted such widespread loss.
The lesson is unquestionably the neces
sity of aiming more, generally at slow-
burning structures. The absolutely fire
proof building is as yet undemonstrated;
but the means of putting up buildings in
which flames can spread but slowly are
well demonstrated. Every one should see
the importance of this aim in architecture.
Insurance companies especially should
serve their own interest by lowering their
rates on slow-burning construction instead
of trying to put up rates Indiscriminately
on all classes of buildings.
WHAT SHOULD BE COMPARED.
The New York World prints in parallel
columns extracts from President Cleve
land's tariff message of 1887 and from his
recent letter of acceptance to prove that
he has not changed his position. Both ex
tracts express the opinion that the changes
which the writer urges can be made with
out inflicting any serious disturbance upon
industrial interests. In other' words these
extracts are cited to prove that the Demo
cratic candidate does not propose, as Sen
ator Vest alleges, for the party to "wage
a war of extermination on protected in
dustries." So far so good. But what the World
omits, and what would make a very inter
esting exhibit in parallel columns'with
Mr. Cleveland's utterances, are the dec
laration adopted by the Democratic Na
tional Convention, and also the resolution
which that body voted down by about five
to three. If tlfose utterances were placed
in comparison it would be found that the
Democratic party formally committed it
self to tho doctrine of Calhoun, that to
adjust the tariff duties so as to yield any
measure of protection to home industries
s "unconstitutional," and with equal
vigor voted down a resolution conveying
the assurance, extended by the candidate,
that the tariff was to be reduced without
inflicting undue injury on industry and
wages.
Tbe case therefore stands as follows:
The candidate first, when tentatively
urging his policy and now in tbe midst of
a campaign when seeking to conciliate the
business Interests, protests that he Is not
going to reform the tariff enough to hurt
anyone. The party on the other hand re
fuses to give any such assurance, virtually
declares that they would smash the pro
tected industries, and improves the oppor
tunity to revive the long defunct theory of
Calhoun. Which is the authoritative dec
laration of Democracy? There is no
doubt that both urge the nation to put
Democracy into power, although they
make very different representations as to
what Democracy will do if it gets into
power. Would Mr. Cleveland or the tariff
smashers in the House frame the tariff
bills if the nation should give them the
chance?
The Democratic party is the one on
trial. As it chose to put itself distinctly
on the platform of Calhounlim and the
most destructive variety of free trade it
must take the consequences. It cannot
get out of It by the device of letting the
candidate make a new platform in the
middle of a campaign.
THE GROWTH OF WOMAN.
A statement Is going the rounds, with a
mixture of scientific and woman's depart
ment gossip, to the effect that the Ameri
can woman is steadily growing in height,
weight and comeliness. The latter part
of the statement conveys no news to the
male American who has the fact forced
on his susceptibilities every day. But that
lovely woman is increasing in size, both
perpendicularly and horizontally, is news
calculated to make glad the heart of man,
with the exception, perhaps, of' blm of
diminutive stature.
Of course this is the result of physical
culture. As woman's mind was dwarfed
by the pettiness of female education so
her body was dwarfed by the vices of fe
male dress. The progress of the age to
ward giving women the same educational
chances as men reveals to us . the proba
bility that woman's mental development
may eventually become the same as that
of men, and here we have a similar
intimation that if female physical
culture is carried far enough the woman
may by taking thought add enough cubits
to her stature to bo the physical equal of
man as welL The probability has its dis
advantages; for as woman represents the
leisure class of America, and is therefore
able to give the most exclusive attention
to these pursuits of culture, it may wind
up by letting woman get beyond man in
both intellectual and physical growth,
which would be unpleasant for the lords
of creation.
Nevertheless we cannot have too much
good. The more there is of the American
woman, both physically and Intellectually,
the better the American male will like her.
The growth Immediately holds out the
pleasing hope that woman will grow, in
both mind and body, sufficiently to keep
the skirt of her dress above the dirt of tbe
streets.
OTVEAGH'S DEMOCRATIC CAREER.
The Dispatch was mistaken. It is not
often so; but occasionally an error of judg
ment will occur and as such must be
acknowledged. The error was in the be
lief that the Democratic glorification of
Wayne MacVeagh would last till after
election. The antecedents justified ,the
opinion that it would continue so long, nut
THE
no longer. Yet David B. Hill, the author
ized exponent of Democracy, unconstitu
tional, incidental protection and free bi
metallic coinage, is whacking away at
MacVeagh more vigorously than at any
Republican who stands by his party.
It is true that Mr. MacVeagh's tactics
were so nearly like those of a bull in a
china shop that it was incumbent on some
of theDemocrats to do something. Never
theless, the promptitudo with which David
Bennett leaps Into the breach reveals the
true Democratic enmity to the hated
Mugwump. When Hill gets his chance
there is no doubt he hits some bard strokes.
Certainly a man who believed that Tilden
was elected in 1876, and waited until
1892 to make It tbe reason for political
action, is a very peculiar being. And the
idea of helping the Cleveland cause by a
personal attack on Minister Egan was
densely stupid.
. It is none the less a remarkable record
that MacVeagh has been avowedly with
the Democrats about two weeks and now
lie is anathema maranatha in the Demo
cratic camp.
LABOCCHEBE ON PROTECTION.
Mr. Labouchere's declaration that if he
were an American he would vote for pro
tection is an interesting reinforcement to
the protective cause. Mr. Labouchere
may not bring many votes tot the party
but his way of putting the case is such as
to have a decided effect on thoughtful
minds. He says:
"It is certain that at the present mo
ment America is the most prosperous
country in the world, despite our asser
tions that protection is ruinous. If I had
been an American myself I should have
advocated protection. Tbe proof of the
pudding is in the eating. Protection pud
ding has provided a more plentiful meal
for Americans than free trade provides for
us."
, There is little doubt that one of the
chief attractions to Mr. Labouchere in
stating this view is the shock he will thus
administer to the most firmly fixed ideas
of. the British mind. One of John Bull's
most thorough convictions is that it is
best for all the world to administer to his
prosperity. It being for the English ad
vantage to have the United States.adopt
free trade it is plain as a pike staff to the
average Englishman that the United
States will be benefitedby not doing so. Is
it not the mission of humanity to consume
the output of Brummagem and Manches
ter? Mr. Labouchere dellght3 in putting
forth propositions that perplex ind
amaze the conventional Briton, which may,
perhaps, be the inspiring motive in his
statement of the case as above quoted.
But tbe statement has just the same force
on one side of the water as on the other.
Tho United States is the most prosperous
nation on the face of tbe earth. There
are reforms by which this prosperity can
be increased and more widely distributed.
But the abandonment of the policy under
which this prosperity was built up is not
among them.
v A POSSIBLE DI6COVERT.
The manner of tbe theater-party as
varied by locality is the subject of inter
esting discussion between New York and
Boston organs of public opinion. The
Boston Adtertiier complains that tbe
theater-party of that city is an evident
descendant of the sewing-circles of New
England's past generation. Its conversa
tion makes it impossible for people in the
vicinity to hear themselves tbinkr much
less hear the dialogue on the stage.
Whereupon the New York Tribune comes
forward with expressions of surprise and
consternation that such things can be in
Boston, mentioning by way of contrast
that New York theater-parties are models
of decorum and respectful attention to tho
performance. There might be suspicion
that, like Artemas Ward's jeu d'eiprit,
"this is sarkassm," if it did close with a
reference to Lord Bacon's "vantage
ground of truth."
This of course renders it impossible to
exercise doubts, and, the phenomena being
thus established, we may by the synthetic
process discover underneath the contrast
an important social law. Boston society
is staid, formal and self-contained; yet its
theater-parties chatter like the gossiping
bees of a generation ago. New York so
ciety is giddy and portly, but the theater
parties which must by no means be con
fused with the occupants of tbe boxes at
the opera are decorous and silent In
this apparent reversal of the usual charac
teristics may we not perceive the reflex
action of dramatic personification on the
habitual spectators? The actors represent
other characteristics than their individual
ones; and tbe theater-parties are by the
example led to assume tbe opposite to
their usual qualities. This results In
making Boston put an antic disposition on
while New York society for a dramatic
quick change assumes the counterfeit pre
sentiment of quiet and decorous manners.
There is support for this interesting
theory in the study of the average Pitts
burg theater-party. That development of
modern society is not remarkable either
for Its loquacity or absence of assumption.
It is more apt to take tbe attitude of sit
ting for its portrait, or the air of rapt ab
straction with which tbe Circassian beauty
submits herself to the gaze of the commoa
herd. Yet posing is not an every-day oc
cupation of Pittsburg society. The reflex
action of the dramatic art is undoubtedly
responsible for this reversal of the usual
Pittsburg nature.
If further observation should demon
strate that Chicago theater-parties are
modest and free from assumption, and
Philadelphia's expansive and democratic,
the operation of the law would be estab
lished beyond a question. Great results
might be obtained from the scientific ap
plication of the discovery.
So long as the average citizen allows the
loyo of money to take precedence of tbe love
of country, government will remain to a
great extent in tho hands of spoilsmen. So
long as spoilsmen are allowed to huvo their
own way, efficiency will be a little consid
ered detail in the appointment of nubile
servants and the framing of legislation. A
big business suffers from bad managers no
less than, a little one and so long as offices
are regarded mainly as rewards for partisan
services, the administration of the country
will fall snort of econotnlo Ideals. In propor
tion as the individual exercises his right of
suffrage according to hi honest opinion of
tho fitness ot men and things voted upon
In just that proportion will the whole coun
try be tue gainer by tbe removal of power
from tbe hands or the self-interested few
into those of tbe public spirited many. Let
every man cast his ballot on bebalf of what
he believes to be for the greatest good of the
greatest number.
Eaikbow-chabees are to be warned
against , over-dependenoy on bows of
promise, as tbe love-lorn maiden should be
ware of too implicit a confidence in the
promise of a beau.
Ax interview with a representative of
the Society far tbe Improvement of tbe
Poor, which appears in This Dispatch this
morning, contains much tltat is instructive.
Tbe gist of tbe whole matter is that Indis
criminate alms-giving is more apt to do
harm than good to the reoiplent. Honey, or
even clothes, food or coal, distributed with
out 'investigation encourages professional
PTTTggigHG PgATOgg
J mendicancy 'more often thahf7ft relieve
genuine distress, -anoso who cannot, or win,
not, spare tbe time to examine into (he tales
of woe recited to excite their pity, or-bore
thorn into buying off the beggarcannot do
better than subscribe as liberally. o their
means allow to a society whiob confines Its
relierto tbe needy and probes all the eases
submitted to it. ,
Thet are making experiments in adver
tising or) the clouds in London by means of
an electrio light. This innovation is won
derfully significant Of tho utilitarian spirit
of the age. It is too much to hope that the
invention will tend to popularize astron
omy, and it is rather an extension of tbe
earth's' diameter than an incentive to in
creased study of tbe beautiful. There will
be some interesting legal arguments if rival
advertisers aim for tae same cloud, and
seek to prosecute one another for trespass.
Probably the partition of the heavens
among Individuals wilt form a companion
plctiueto the partition of Africa among
tbe nations.
The annual demonstration of the mys
terious connection between nuts, indiges
tion, lovesickness and Halloween is near at
band. May the shadows of the participants
never grow less!
To-morrow Councils are to decide the
High School question, and it is to be hoped
that they will devote the idi Fifth Avenue
Market property to an educational use.- If
they manage to aid the movement to make
the collection and cromatlon of garbage a
municipal function at the fame sitting, so
much tho better for members of Councils
and the city in general.
What a happy world this wonld be if
all men were as fiee from discontent as rival
politicals profess to be with tno condition
of affairs that is bound to bring defeat to
some of thorn!
The time will arrive sooner or later when
both the public many and the political few
will awaken to the fact that desire for office,
for tbe sake of the remuneration or power
It brings, is rather an argument against a
man's appointment to a position of national,
State or local importance than a reason for
the fulfillment of his desire.
American citizens who have not suf
ficient leisure to devote reasonable atten-
tion to their own government are slaves to'
a selfish greed that is destructive of trne
patriotism.
Hindsight will prove more reliable
than foresight as to the severity of the com
ing winter. But it is perfectly safe to predict
that about half of the candidates for public
office will awake to find themselves com
pletely snowed under on tho morning of No
vember 9.
There is probably more corruption going
on secretly Just now than is enough to make
np lor the bribery told of that has not
occurred.
Withk the American workman has ar
rived at the conclusion that ho would like
to scale down bis wages to tbe European
standard, a tariff-lor-revenue-only party will
be tbe one for him to support.
The world does move,
electrio omnibnst
London has an
Bteeet cars should be nailed down with
out delay. A carriage and team were lost,
stolen or strayed In Pittsburg yesterday.
Real estate can hardly be longer considered
a secure investment.
That much-needed rain is still altogether
in nubitnu.
PEOPLE OP faOMIKEXCR,
Geoboe W. Chilss has been called the
"Abou Ben Adhem of the nineteenth cen
tury." Andbew Laxo says "there are not
many people, perhaps none, who can write
fairy tales." He hasn't kept tbe run ot the
campaign literature on this side.
Pbof. William S. Wood, of Seymour, '
ma., nas taugnt sonooi xor 3 years, in all
that time he has been disabled for work by
sickness but six and one-half days.
The Empress Frederick is hard at work
on a memoir of her husband. In this labor
of love she is aided by her son, Emperor
William, and by Queen Victoria, whom she
is to visit in England very soon. ,
Mbs. M. Fkexch Sheldqx, who is lec
turing on East Africa in New England, is
advertised probably without her knowl
edgeby references to the cost of her gown
rather than tbe charms of her narrative.
Tennxsok is credited with once having
advised a man to read a verse from tbe
Bible and a verse from Shakespeare dally;
"for," said he, "one will teach ytou how to
speak to God and the other how to address
your follows."
The Pope has granted a dispensation for
the marriage of Princess ilarle, eldest
daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, and
Prince Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Kou
mania. Tbe Princess is a Protestant und
the Prince a Catholic.
HrBEitT A. Kewtoit, Professor of
Mathematics at Tale University, has been
elected a member of tbe Boyal Philosophi
cal Society of London. Prof. Newton is the
oldest active professor at Tale, having been
oonnected with the University since 1851
W. T. Wandbet, who died in Qnincy,
III., tbe other day in tbe poorhonse, was the
last or Blucher's drummer boys at Waterloo.
About 100 of them have died in this country
alone, if reports are true, and the number of
men now living In the United States who re
member how Napoleon looked has been nar
rowed to less than a dozen.
GOLD IH ZEE HEQI0N OF SHOW.
Explorer Guvreaa Paints a Glowing Picture
or Mining Wealth in the Far North.
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 29. Explorer Guv
reau and party have returned from their
trip up tho Skeena river. Gnvreau, speak
ing of his trip, says:
"Our Journey was a very interesting one.
There is plenty of gold and many opportuni
ties forpmoer mining. The miners I met
told me they made from 3 to $10 per day on
bars, and in a few years many more men
will be there. Our work during the suuunor
has been largely a tract survey and making
goneral notes of our observations for the
nse of the Land Department.
"Thero is some good land there which
might be used for agricultural purposes but
for the frosts. .It is too lar north. Wbnn
at Skeena this summer I heard of the re
sults of our work last year. Some 60 or 70
families have gone in there as a result of in
foimatlon we obtained, and I understand
there are applications continually coming
in for reports and maps. The report on this
year's tiip will be given to the Government
of British Columbia as soon as possible."
A EEMAEKABLE C0IHCIDKK0E.
Two Fatal Accidents at Pittsburg and Phila
delphia Almost Alike.
A wonder of many is the remarkable coin
cidence of special events that occnr at dif
ferent places at tbe same time.
Friday night a man' was Carried on tbe
Cannonball express from Bberidan station
to Pittsburg, a distance of four miles, stand
ing upright on tbe pilot of tbe engine. The
same night a man and his wlfo met their
dentil In Philadelphia in a similar manner,
the woman being ourried lor nearly a mile
on the engine's cowcatcher. Tbe Philadel
phia Inquirer desoribes tbe incident as fol
lows: Kane was dished to the other side and hurled
over the embankment, while the mangled bodrof
his wife found a lodging place on the cowcatcher
of the engine. Before It could be stopptd the
train had reached berenteentu street, nearly a
mile beyond.
The Only Drawback to Chris.
New Orleans Picayune.
Columbus would have made a great Presi
dent of tho United States if he had not been
a foreigner and ineligible.
, IT They Only Would. ,
Washington Star. ?f-
The small demand or brass bands'during
this campaign will give thorn a, chftnoo" to
devote some time to music v -s -, v n
SUNPAX OCTOBER "80,
THE GOSSIP OF POLITICS.
IMOM A STAFF COBBBSrOWDXKT.1
There -are some Democrats who are
so sure of It that they are already laying
pipe for office under Grover Cleveland. Cer
tain loyal Clevelanders, and of course pa
triots, have been quietly circulating peti
tions for appointment and securing indorse
ments, so as to be ready for the spoilsmen's
fray when the time comes. There are a
couple of very excellent gentlemen tempo
rarily holding up tho country by tbe tall at
No, 1S9 Fifth avenue, who are heavily heeled
for bear. I'll back them for odds, to have
their applications in before the eleotlon re
turns can be got here from the Pacific coast.
They have not committed the unpardonable
error attributed to numerous outsiders, of
filing their applications in advance, but
they will lose no time over tbe questions of
good tiisto and political proprloty after tbe
eleotlon snail Have taken place.
, Tbe underground rumor that Mr. Cleve
land will abandon hs original anti-Jack-Ionian
stand as to the offices and will begin
nt once to clear oat the old Republican rub
bish and never pause oslon:; as a single Re
publican remains on tbe inside and a single
hungry Democrat remains on tbe outside
has nn extremely exhilarating effect upon
these gentlemen. Tbey are taking consid
erable stock in the rumor from the fact that
Cleveland will not again be a candidate for
President, and he will not be under the
necessity of trimming so closely and will
want to pay off some political dobts before
he retires permanently from public office.
I am told confidentially in other quarters
that Mr. Cleveland is cutting teeth on the
Mugwump crowd and that the latter will
not run the next Cleveland administration.
This Is said to be 'the seoret of the extraor
dinary work being done for Cleveland by the
Tammany regular Demooiaoy. They say
that Cleveland is disgusted with the way tne
ante-Chicago financial promises have
panned out, and this, in connection with
worry experienced in keeping the Mug
wumps fiom overturning the kettle and
flinging tbe Democratic fat Into the fire, has
detei mined him in the new course to be
pursued as soon as be gets comfortably
seated in the executive chair.
It will be seen tbat all this gossip is based
upon the extravagant supposition:
First That Cleveland has changed his
mind as to civil service reform.
. Second That his formerpolfcy was merely
policy, not principle, and for political ef
fect. Third That President Cleveland catered
to tbe Mugwumps.
Fourth That be expected -the antl-sn&p-pers
to live up to their' ante-convention
financial promises.
Fifth That Cleveland feels indebted to
anybody for political services.
These people don't know Grover Cleve
land. They don't even suspect him. If
if they did they would "understand that
Cleveland's mind is as inflexible as the
fabled laws of the "Medes and Persians. They
would appreciate tho fact that tbe Mug
wump and tbe anti-snapper were results not
the causes or Clevelandlsm. They would
realize that there is nosuoli quality as policy
in Cleveland's political make-up. Tou might
as well discuss the policy of a pig in a corn
field. As as for political debts, tbey are all
on the other side. .The Democratic party is
over head and ears in debt to Mr. Clevoland.
He owes It nothing. If it hadn't been for
Cleveland I should just like to know where
the Democratic party would be to-day. In
tbe hands of a receiver, probably. There
fore, if Democratic campaigners get any
thing out of the coming Cleveland adminis
tration it will not be because they are Dem
ocratsand, if Mugwump campaigners get
anything ont of him it won't be because they
are Mugwumps. It will be because Mr. Cleve
land sees fit to choose tbem. Gentlemen,
don't make any mistake about Clevelaud
when you start out gunning for office.
Perhaps after all it would be quite as well
to wait for the returns.
Doesn't Affect the Theaters.
' One of the peculiarities of (his cam
'paign thus far has been its" small influence
upon theatrical amusements. Managers
dread a political excitement, and usually
lose money by every national camDalern.
Up to this time, however, managers say the
political disturbance has affected tbem very
iff tie, or none at all. , Messis. Lltt & Davis
have a half dozen shows on1 trie road, aiid
their reports indicate tnac all are doing
well at least no complaint U made of polit
ical interference. It is the same in this city.
'Ail of tbe good attractions are playing to
crowded houses, and some very poor "at
tractions," so-cailed.are doing quite a pretty
business. Whether this is due to "goneral
apathy" on the great national issue of who
shall parcel oat the offices, or to a moie
philosophical viowof things on the pait of
the public, I don't know. Tbe theatrical
managers don't care.
Southern Democrats of New York.
Some of the most interesting meetings
of tho campaign have been held at the head
quarters of the Assooiatlon of Southern
Democrats of New York, No. 13 West Twenty-fourth
street. It will donbtless surprise
many to learn tbat there are about 30,000
Southerners who are now votors in this city.
There are 2,000 enrolled memoers of this as
sociation. Their handsome and spacious
headquarters, next to the headquarters of
the Democratic State Committee, just below
tbe IloBman House, though apparently han
dicapped by No. 13, have been the scene of
considerable effective campaign work.
It has been said that or tbe entire mem
bership of the Southern Association, lully
two-tbirds served in the Southern army dur
ing thenar. The number of colonels tbat
can be met at No. 13 almost any evening
would officer a small army. The delightful
Southern accent Is heard on every band.
The polished manners, the old-fashioned
courtesy or speech, the military bearing
all remind me of P.lchmon d and Charleston
and New Orleans, and form a pleasing con
trast to the political chaiactoristlcsof a
Tammany Hall crowd. It Is as if one were
suddenly transported to a new country
and inthemldstof a different race of Ameri
cans. General Andrew G. Dickinson, tne Presi
dent of the Southern Association, was Chief
of Goneial Mauruder's staff during the. war.
Mr. William T. Trenholm, Trensuier, will
bo remembered as Assistant Secietary or
the Treasury under Cleveland. But the list
of Vice Presidents and other officers forms
not only an lnterestingarray ofnoted South
ern names, but includes a formidable slice
of tho important and wealthy personality
of the metropolis. There are half a dozen
bank presidents, as many judges, and big
cotton brokers, railway magnates, telegraph
magnets, lawyers, doctors, merchants mem
bers of tbe various exchanges and so on.
The historical name of Washington is con
spicuous. William D. H. Washington is a
member of tho old Wasnlngton lamilv of
Virginia. His father xtus seized by John
Brown at the famous Huiper's Ferry raid
and held as a hostage. And thero are a
hundred other numes ou the list I saw that
are familiar to Southern eyes ana eurs that
are in dlssolubly associated with the history
of tbe country.
An Interesting event of the campaizn was
a speech delivered at the Southern Associa
tion rooms a short time ago by Mr. Thomas
L. Sales, a negro and ex-slave, from Vir
ginia, The rooms were packed by the most
aristocratic representation that could be
gleaned from tbo South to-day. The negro
is a natural orator. Ho was born in Virginia
and was owned by Judge Benedict in Botet
purt county. His speech was on the rela
tions of tbe races in the Sontb, and ho ad
vanced the theory that vho legitimate place
ot the negro in Southern politics was where
his best interests lie and that was with the
respectable white element. It is the snum
theory advanced by the late Oliver P. Mor
ton, of Indiana, when tho question or nogro
suffrage was before tbe country. He de
clared that the' logical result would be to
give tbe South that much greater representa
tion and without any lasting advantage to
the Republicans, hs the personal Interests
of tbe ex-slave would bo with his old mas
ter and he would necessarily Decomo a Dem
ocrat. But think of this ex-slave being in
vited to addross tho representative South
ern Democrats of Now York and being list
ened to with respeot and enthusiasm, if you
want to be reminded of how merrily the
world is moving alongl
A Demonstration That Failed.
Secretary Wakeman, of the Protective
Tariff League, bought a suit of clothes up
in Vermont tbe other day for $3 SO. It was
a heavy winter suit of .foxy English appear
ance, father shortin the coat tail, bnt mak
ing np for tltat deficiency in height of
collar. It had red and brown and blue and
black and white threads in its composition,
and was rolled gold in its make-up. Barr
ing the English appearance tbe suit was one
wblolt an honest mechanlo might not be
ashamed of on tbe first day he wore It. Mr.
Wakeman lnvetted -In the nglish 'suit
made in Vermont to show that the tariff Is
not a tax, and-that really good, substantial
English. clothe,are made in Vermont at less
than naif the tax on the imported article.
Ur.jfakeraan procured a bill of aie to ex
189a
hibit simultaneously with tbe clothes. This
bill of sale shows conclusively tbat tbe snlt
was purchased at retail in Vermont for fS SO.
The goods show that $5 represents tbe profit
and 60 cen ts the cost.
Armed with his little bill or sale and clad
in the English snlt made inVermout. Mr.,
Wakeman went forth to slay the free trade
dragon. I think it was in Jersey somewhere
that he confronted tbe dragon, but no mat
tor. It was some placewhere it rained. In
the morning he awoke and yawned when he
thought of it. The English clotbes made in
Vermont were banging across a cbalr. A
horrible tbonghc struck him, and he leaped
from bis Jersey conch of shucks and corn
cobs and began to put them on the
clothes, not the corncobs. He might as well
have tried the latter, however, as tbe En
glish clothes made in Vermont. The trou
sers were all right tbey could be worn as
knickerbockers; out the vest refused to ac
knowledgouny previous acquaintance with
the trousers and lacked several inohes of
meeting around the waist. As for the coat,
it had crept up a foot highor in the tall ana
shrunken six inches across tbe shoulders,
while the sleeves were about right for ten
button gloves.
"Can it be possible," so'.iloqutzad Wake
man, "that I have suddenly swollen to this
greatnessr"
Tou see, he was reluctant to find fault with
the clotbes. He knew that be made a good,
speech tho previous evening, and had ex
hibited the clothes and the receipted bill for
$3 60 to an enthusiastic multitude, and per
haps he mltcht have swollen, don't yon
know. But his imported English underwear
gave the lie to this. It fit his manly form
same as usual. The proof forced itself upon
his brain with something equivalent to a
dull, sickening thud. While he was lying in
bed waiting for his other clothes he men
tally resolved upon refotm. Henceforth he
would travel with two suits.
Charles Tiieodobe Murray.
New York, Oct. 29.
THINKS EOniNS A PH3T.'
The Iter. Dr. Thomas Dixon Says That Four
of His Birds Were Sparrows.
In answer to the story published a lew
days ago about liim, the Rev. Dr. Thomas
Dixon has sent the following letter to the
New Tork Berald:
I have Just returned from a Pennsylvania bunt
ing trip and on the train read tbe reports of my
alleged lining of sonar birds on Ststen Island.
These reports, particularly those fathered by the
"United Press." are mostly melodramatic fiction
and my alleged utterances a pure Invention.
The facts are as follows: Tuesday noon I went
over to ataten Island to my old home to practice
wing shooting. I prsctlced on sparrows and robins,
supposing them both pests. I killed 31 of these
birds In three hours' practice. Mr. LUk arrested
me Tor killing "songbirds." This arrest was made
with most feverish haste aud brutality. He was
trembling from head to foot with the excited in
stincts of a ulture, thinking of his possible sbare
of the spoils, and when I asked him for his author
ity he drew his club from beneath his cloak and,
rushing at me, tried to push me down without the
slightest provocation. I called a carriage and
drove to Justice Acker's house. The birds were
counted and the fine paid. Mr. Llsk solemnly
swearing for the sake of $10 that four common
sparrows were thrashes 1 I did not remain in the
Justice's private office more than five minutes, and
not one syllable of the alleged conversation took
place.
In my native South, the robin, so far from being
considered a soog bird. Is regarded as a disreputa
ble, gluttonous pest. On Statcn Island, however,
he has been deified. In my soul I am sorry for the
people whose stock of song Is so low as to prize as
divine the cry of the robin. I repent In ashes. I
would not knowingly ruffle the feelings of a sav
age by taking the brass ornaments from bis nose,
for he doubtless thinks them VautlfuL
The man who can discover music In the cry of a
robin could doubtless find a symphony of Ueethoven
In the movements of a sand fiddler irglven encour
agement: and I doubt not that such a man would
succeed at last In locating the "lost cnurd" la the
bray of an ass. Genius should be encouraged.
For the next few days 1 shall devote lnyselr
strictly to tiger bunting, and if as successful as
with robins I'll not complain at the expenses.
Tiioiias Dixox, Jb.
NEW TOBK. Oct. 28.
Right below above statement the Herald
publishes tbe following poem:
"A-ItOBBlH OF HrMSILF."
He stopped their little carol
With his shiny double barrel;
The number tbat he killed was thirty-one.
He stopped the wee heart throbbln's
Ofjust one and thirty robins.
And didn't realize tbat wrong he'a done.
But he got himself a fix in.
Did sporting Pastor Dixon.
That cost him a good sum of ready pelf;
For each little heart he stopped
A live dollar bill he dropped.
And he was but a-robbla of Iilmselt
M.C.
EGAN TERSDS HTEAGH.
Mr. Patrick EoAircutlnto the tender spots
on Mr. MaoVeagh's skin. Toledo Blade.
WaykbMacVeaqh- has a sharp tongue, but
Patrick Egan has a sharper pen. Troy
Times.
Nxw-CoirvERT MaoVbaoh showed alto
gether too much zeal in attacking Minister
Egan to suit old-line Democrats. Buffalo
Express. ' ,
Aa a job of dignified Mugwump skinning,
the letter of Minister Egan to Wayne Mac
Veagh cannot be Improved upon. Indian
apolis Journal.
It is difficult to tell which hurt Wayne
MaoVeagh the most tbe letter ho wrote
himself or tho one written by Patrick Egan.
Rochester Democrat.
Probably one Wayne MacVeagh ia now
convinced that he made a great mistake
when be stirred np one Patrick .Egan.
Baltimore American,
It seems probable that Mr. Egan and Mr.
MaoVeagh Intend to establish reciprocal re
lations by resnrdlngeach otber as unworthy
of further attention. Washington Star.
Cebtaihly Mr. MacVeagh has done noth
ing but exposo his own venom against the
Irish cause by attacking Mr. Egan for his
patriotic efforts in bebalf of tbat cause.
JVew Tork Press.
Mb. Egah's letter to Mr. Cleveland's law
partner, Mr. Wayne MacVeagh, will give the
whole firm something to think of from now
on to tbe election two weeks hence.
Detroit Journal.
Mb. Eoiir makes a dignified but none the
less effectual reply to the scandalous attacks
made on him by Mr. MacVeagh. There was
not tbo slightest excuse for this attack.
Phi'adelphia Prtst.
Mr. Eoan does not deal in dlplomatlo
platitudes; he expresses his opinion of Mr.
MacVeagh and then enters upon his own de
fense In such an able way, tbat it is certain
he will make his point among Irish-Americans.
Columbus Dispatch.
MaoVeaob threw a boomerang when he
attacked Patrick Egan. Tbe Irish-American
who is a political refugee is not to be in
sulted with impunity by the Democrats. It
is an honor to be a sacrificing patriot in any
oonntry. ounp; "ffijeonstn.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
Robert Franz, Composer.
Brief mention ot the death of Itobert
Franz, the well-known German composer, was
published in this column several days ago. He
was born at Halle, the birthplace of Handel. In
1815. During tbe latter years of his life he was the
most Important composer of German songs. He
was the son of a respectable citizen, and had
abundant opportunity to obtain a thorough edu
cation. His talent for music appeared early and
excited tbe opposition of his parcuts. It was only
after years 6f delay and finally under pro'-esttnat
his parents permitted him to become a musical
pupil. He was regarded by all except his mother
as the black sheep of the family. He published
his first set of 12 songs In 1313. gaining the ad
miration and friendship of the critic Schumann.
Ills progress was Impeded bv falling hearing and
voted much time to editing the works of Bach and
Handel.
Captain Frederick P. White.
Captain Frederick P. White, of the Pa
cific Mall steamship Costa Rica, died In Colorado
Springs, Col., yesterday of pulmonary consump
tion, aged SI. Captain Whltu a year ago last
August was In command of tho City of Panama.
He earned an loitrnatloruil reputation bvlilsre
rutal to surrender to the Republic of ban Salvador
five political refugees who were passeugers on his
ship.
Andrew Stephens, Newport, Pa.
Andrew Stephens, a fall cousin of Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy and lasf of the grandsons of
Captain Alexander Stephens, who was with Brad
dock in Ms memorable march against Fort Du
quesne, died at his home In Newport, near Uarrls
burp yesterday.
Obituary Notes..
HesbtDtkr, of Harrlsburg, died yesterday,
aged 67 years. He fonzht with the Pennsylvania
volunteers In the Two Hundred First and Rt glment
during the lato war.
nursTM. Corriso, of eir xork, well known
In the financial world and in Sew York socletv.
died very unexpectedly at Francis barracks In St.
Aughsllne. Fla., Friday night.
-KxLBOx Rlaik Bowmax died Friday at Browns
ville in his 83th year. The venerable pioneer passed
away peacefully from old age. Mr. Bowman for
many fear has lived up the MonongahcU and his
landed Interests are considerable.
Decuniary ironpies. mms laiwr icjiia. .c I...... .-
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ENGLAND VS. AMERICA.
An Animated, Discussion in "London of a
Question of National Consequence A
British' Imitator of on American Hu
moristWomen's Warfare on Man.
by oable(to tbz dispatch.!
London, Oct. 2& Copyright "Does
America Hate England?" A discussion of
this pleasant question has been of national
consequence, albeit the connection is not
perceived by Englishmen, -of the fit of sulks
which seized Jobn Bull last week, when tbe
World's Fair celebration forced the latest
aspects of American grandeurs and great-
.nessupon bis attention. According to bis
own notion, as expressed in print, America
does bate Britain with a robust and hearty
hatred. The wish is father of the tbouzht,
for otherwise John Bull could find no justi
fication for the feelings which animate his
own breast when he turns his eyes west
ward. Not that he would confess to enter
taining so vnlgar an emotion toward his
American cousin. He would scorn tbe sug
gestion. He seeks merely a salve for his
private conscience when he ascribes to
America an enmity which he scarcely re
sents. Having deolared his own satisfac
tion, thcielore, that tbe slgbt or tbe British
flag always arouses in an American a vio
lent species of human rabies, Jobn Bull has
this week wrapped himself in a great cloud
of ineffable contempt.
An English Imitation of American Wit,
Poor Boston will surely suffer a bad sea
turn which the weather clerk won't be able
to account for the next time tbe wind is
east. John's authority for his conclusion is
a series of letters from "an Englishman who
has lived ia America, au Englishman who
baa traveled in tbo States," etc. These let
ters depict a condition of popular English
insanity on the other side, truly appalling.
The only representative of America in the
controversy is a bogus one. An editor of the
St. Jamei Gazette, familiar with the "Spoopen
dike Papers," has written a burlesque letter
signed "MIcbigander and Wile," to that
Journal. In which be says: "England Is one
of the peskiest, gosh-darndest, measelyold
bits ot territory on this almighty planet,
and although there are some good people In
England, take tbem all round tbey are
about? as poor a lot as the tin pot country
that gave them birth. Americans are some
times called blowhards over here, but great
suakesl we have got something to blow about
on our side of tho berrlng pond. English
men are always skitln, but (bey have ab
solutely nothing to skite aoout. Tou
haven's got a river in the dodgasted island
that would drown a Mexican mule, and as
for your mountains we have ants out where
I hall from that wouldlnot And tnem com
modious enough for anthills. No, sirool We
answer your query right on the spot. We
do desuiso your waterlogged, vice-laden,
wind-broken old territory. It ain't worth
ptftty."
"Lincoln and the Mono-Metalllsts.
Minister Lincoln is said to have told an
interviewer in New Tork that there was
"reasonable prospect of a sufficient depart
ure by England from its hitherto strict
mono-metallic ideas to give hope of some
practical steps being taken by tho monetary
congress for increased use of silver and for
their adoption by a sufficient number of im
portant powers." If Mr. Lincoln means that
thete is any prospect that the congress will
take any decision whatsoever, his views do
not accord with the general opinion here.
Even bi-metalllsts have little hope that any
thing usoiul will be done, and inono-inetal-lists
assert that two-thiras of the delegates
to the congress will enter it witb instruc
tions in their pockets to do nothing more
than talk. Mr. Ballour's spaccu this week
at Manchester in favor of bi-metalllsm has
opened the floodgates of controversy, but
he said nothing tbat was new. He Is not a
recent convert, and he spukj as a Lancashire
member to a Lancashire audience. All Lib
eral newspapers und a majority of the Tory
Journals have criticised his speech adverse
ly, and there is absolutely no sign outside ot
Lancashire ot tbe popular support which
alone can bring the bi-inetallic question into
tbe region of practical politics.
Tho Women's War on Men.
The lords of creation, especially those who
oppose woman suffrage, have reason to
tremble under tbe mighty threat launched
at thorn at the conference of tbe Woman's
Emancipation Union, held at Birmingham
this week. Tbe patience of at least one
valiant maiden who had battled in vain for
"her rights" had been exhausted. She was
the London delegate to tho conference, and
her terrific onslaught upon masculine hu
manity may have already reached America.
Men, she declared, have always been
woman's mortal enemies, and they will bo
for all time to come. Women must resort to '
something desperate before they get their
freedom. Tbere never bad been a bloodless
revolution yet. This was a little strong for
Miss Cozens' associates, and they asked her
it she was really in earnest. The reply left
no doubt of it. Miss Cozens declared tbat if
she had a regiment of women who could
shoot straight she would win tbe suffrage
lor them in a week yes, and she was ready
to nse dynamite If necessary. The other
nnemancipated women present were not
ready to go to quite such lengths, but tbey
approved Miss Cozens' spirit.
Unique Scheme of a Parisian Fraud.
Paris is unique in the qneer schemes of
some of her adventurers. Two years ago a
sharper using a well-known family name
opened a splendid establishment in tbo Una
Ampere, where he lived in most lavish
style and let It be understood tbat ho was a
millionaire. He descrlDed bis magnificene
ancestral house In Southern France. Finally
he pioposed marriage to a dozen or more of
the wealthiest of the light-hearted young
women in town, and on various pretexts se
cured from tbem sums of money amounting
to $40,000. He is now In Jail, together witb a
livery stablo keeper supposed to be his con
federate. The Biggest Sea Serpent Story Yet.
The mail steamer Angola arrived at Liv
erpool Thursday with the biggest sea ser
pent story yet told. Either the one hundred
or more officers, passengers and crew are a
company of liars, or his majesty the sea ser
pent, mysteriously missing this season from
tbe American coast, has emigrated to West
Africa. Thin is the story of the witnesses,
signed by everybody on board:
"While tbe vessel was steaming between
Bey Beach and Lagos, a long, moving mass
was discerned aboutamlle from shore. There
were no flns or flappers to bo seen, but tne
leviathan was proceeding along at the rate
of Ave or six miles an hour by an undulat
ing, wriggling motion. It was traveling in
an opposite direction to thit in which the
steamer was going, and it was kept in sight
for more than ten minutes. It wns esti
mated that Its length would be about 200
feet. Tho water at tho time was as smooth
as a mill pond, so tpM an unobstructed
view of the monster could be had. Atone
time it raised its enormous bead and took in
the direction of the ship, showing two tre
mendous green eyes. It was broad daylight
at tho time, and when first seen the creature
was within easy distance, being readily saen
by tbe naked e e, and tho glasses that were
used only confirmed tbe opinion tbat it was
a sea serpent."
Tho New Remedy tor Cholera.
Wonderful things are expected of the
new remedy for cholera which has been
tested for a month past at one of the Ham
burg hospitals. Sir Andrew Clark! first ex
perlrncnted with it in England, and sent in
discoveror, an English chemist, with it to
Hamburg. It is known as "Perlodate Crys
tals," but its composition has not been made
public Its notion is said to bo the destruc
tion of all microblc gonns witnout Injury to
tue human tissues. It is an interesting fact,
by the way, that flies are found to bo dan
gerous propagators of bacilli diseases. An
experimenter in Hamburg recently cap
tured nlnu flies which had been in contact
with cholera material, and placed them in
flasks containing nutrient galatine. In six.
of the flasks many comma bacilli were sub
sequently found.
Dogs That Will Steal Anything.
The sequel to tbe story about the dog
that stole umbrellas Is a sad one for tbe
reputation of tbe canine race. The dog and
bis master were in court this woek, and tue
charge agalnt the beast was fully proved.
The dog's master was remandodaftera hear
ing, during wnlch the animal howled dis
mally. The police testified that dishonesty
of the sort charged was by no means un
known among dogs. It has since been
proved, however, that theft is not always
the result or human corruption. A gontle
mnn bus come forward to say that he has a
collie which not long ago acquired the Intuit
of bringing a large number of newspapers,
magazines and other literature to the house
dally. The aulinol was watched, and it was
found that he snatched tne papers from the
hani3 of unsuspecting passengers and
bounded away to his master's house. This
animal has been induced to reform.
Somebody Missed a Scoop.
Baltimore American.!
Someone has discovered the faot tbat
when Columbus landed there was no re
porter present to ask him what he thought
of America,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There Is one 510.000 greenback.
Since 1790 433,436 patents have been
granted in America.
There are 465,000 school children In
England's metropolis.
The daily newspapers began tha we of
Illustrations about lSJi.
In 1790 eighty families in Connecticut
were engaged in silk-growing.
Our output of manufactured articles in
1888 was nearly donble that of Great Britain
Curious slabs of stone have been nn-.
earthed from a mound In tha Cnijama Val
ley, Cal.
Twenty-one thousand six hundred per
sons were murdered In Italy between 1333
and 1836.
The professional Boman actor was dis
franchised, his calling being deemed dis
graceful. Five Cherryfield, Me., canning estab
lishments have put np-S75,000 worth of blue
berries this year.
During the Norman period in "England
ladles' sleeves were worn, long enough to
reach the ground.
Deer' are reported so plentiful in
Michigan town that they have to be stoned
out of tbe turnip fields.
On the Boyal Sovereign, the new En
glish battle ship, there are 600 electrio lights,
connected by SO miles of wire.
Asnbmarine electrical lamp has been
tested in Toulon at a depth of 30 feet. It
illuminated a radius of 100 feet.
At a recent sale in Paris two autograph
scores of Offenbach were sold at $50 and,
tbat of "the Prophet" of Meyerbeer for $30.
Bobinson Crusoe's Island, Juan Fer
nandez, is inhabited by abont CO persons,
who attend to tha herds of cattle that grazo
there.
Curling irons dry the hair by removing
the natural oil, and crimping tbe hair over
hot Iron sooner or later caus:s It to crack
and break.
The annual increase in the production
of grain in the United States since 1S60 has
been double that noted daring the preced.
ing 20 years.
A San Francisco firm is about to com
mence the revival of whaling in the Antarc
tic Ocean, which has not been carried on for
many years.
The region abont the Dead Sea is one of
the hottest places on tbe globe, and tbe sea
is said to lose 1,000,000 tons of water a day
by evaporation.
In certain parts of India cocoannt trees,
once almost lifeless in appearance, have
been made to yield abundantly by placing
salt at the roots.
The cnltivation of the pineapple in the
Bahamas Is a very profitable undertaking.
At twopence each an acre of pineapples re
turns $200 to $225.
If we could penetrate the earth's sur
face to a distance of two miles, we would
find tho place where water could not exist
except in the state of steam.
A stained glass window has been put in
the parish church of Hythe, England, in
memory of Lionel Lnkin, who conceived and
designed tne first lifeboat in 1735.
Several observant ladies have discov
ered tbat vegetarians have clear complex
ions, and have either renounced tbe n3o ot
meat entirely or partake of it sparingly.
In the basement of the Bank'of Eng
land is tbe barracks wherein half a hundred
soldiers aro quartered from 7 o'clock every
evening until 7 o'clock the next morning for
tbe protection of the bank.
In India and Sonth America there is
said to be a small tree, known as the "sor
rowful treo," which bears sweet-scented
flower", that "bloom only in the night time
audfall off at the break of day."
The most indestructible wood is the
Jarrah wood, of Western Australia, which
defies all forms of decay and is untouched
by all destructive Insects, so that ships Dalit
of it do not need to be coppered.
The Paris Jardin des Plantes owes its
origin to a florist, who, in tho time of Henry
IV.. zrew all sorts of native and imported
plants, to sell flowers as models to tbe man
ufacturers of embroideries and laces.
The Colton Marble Works have just
quarried what is claimed to" be tho larzese
block of marble ever taken out in Califor
nia. It is reported to be 15 feet in length,
5 feet 4 Inches in width and 6 feet 5 inches
(hick:
In England cheap tobacco is now often
wrapped in packages containing graphic
illustrations of the glories of a soldier's life,
the authorities hoping in this way to induce
many ambitious rustics and cockneys to join
the army.
According to statistics compiled by the
In ternational Telegraph Bureau of Berne
tbere were dispatched in Europe during the
year 1891, 207,595,000 telegram: in the remain
Inn portion of the world, 3,422,000. a total of
296,017,000.
The cost of shonting "Vive la Franca!"
one time In AIsace-Lorraino has been fixed
at 20 marks. Joseph Engene Lrmoine, a
Journalist, who lives in Prance, but gave ut
terance to his patriotic feeling in Metz, has
found this ont.
There are chicken factories in New
England, with never an old hen In them,
that are turning oat thousands of mother
less chickens every week" more successfully
than Dy the old method. In the incubator
art leaves nature in the rear.
The College of the Propaganda at Borne
announces tbe conversion of 40,000 persons
to Christianity in tho first six months of
1392. The greater portion of the converts
were in Asia. West Africa, and a considera
ble number In tbe British provinces.
But one species of venomous bird is
known to tho student of ornithological odd
itiesthe Bpir N'Doob, or "Bird of Death,"
a feathered paradox of New Guinea. Per
sons bitten by tbe creature are seized by
maddening pains, which rapidly extend to
every part of the body. Loss of sight, con
vulsions and lockjaw are tho other symp
toms which follow in rapid succession.
The Austrian consume more tobacco
than any otber nationality or race on tha
globe, civilized or savase. Recent investi
gation by eminent statisticians gives tbe
nnmber of pounds consumed annually by
each 100 inhabitants of tbe different Euro
pean countries as follows: Snaln, 110
pounds; Italy, 123; Great Britain, 133; ltusila,
182; Denmark, 224; Norway, 229, aud Austria,
27J pounds.
OKIGINAI. AND JOCOSE.
Editor Ain't this iokerathe farfetched?
Funny John-Well. I should say so. Elghly
mlles-and I walked all the way. Say. I'd let joo
have It for a pair of old shoes.
jasper Well. I suppose Scribble has
given up trying to become a writer at last,butwbat
business ho is going to tackle next is more than I
can tell. 1 sec by this morning's paper he has ad
vertised for beautiful girl."
Bajper Then It is evident he Is going to continue
writing.
Jasper What does he want with a beautiful girl?
Rasper Take his stuff round to the editors, you
Jay.
Mrs. AstUIe T believe yon have
Paddvowskl. tne celebrated pianist. on year books.
AmusementMansger Yes. madam.
Mrs. Astorvllle Then kindly send him to my
house this evening. 1 am going to give a muslcale.
Amusement Manager Awfully sorry, but I can't
dolt. He's gone South. He wanted a haircut sad
was afraid to risk It In this climate.
TWO VRIESD3.
She had two friends, one fat, one lean,
She liked them both, sho was not mean:
Tbe lean o'er hill all clay would roam,
Por leaves to decorate her home;
The fat would sit upon the book.
Tor leaves,whenprv:seo,mnchp'cttler look.
It was a beantifnl dav at the close of Oc
tober. Tbey stood side by side 'nea:h the spread
ing branches of a monarch of the forest on her
father's estate. She was a simple country maiden.
Slot machines and electric cars were as Greek to
her. He was a long-haired chap wno baa spent
most of his time writing bad poetry and eating
English mutton chops at a quick and dirty, and be
cause he could do the latter he called himself a Bo
hemian. As they stood gazing at the setting sun, she
expecting a proposal, he broke forth:
See yonder oaks now shed their varied leaves.
They stand like soldiers, fearless of thefr foes
Then, glancing down, he caught sight of his
patched and threadbare summer suit aud contla
uedr Ah. happy now should autumn be. Indeed,
if or, sure as fate. It now draws near ltt el rise.